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Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away.

Netflix must realize that it's a huge frustration for people who relied on offline downloads to watch content without internet access: on planes, trains, and campsites, and anywhere else where Wi-Fi is unavailable or unreliable.

There's a small chance that Netflix will change its mind if it gets enough complaints, but the streaming service seems determined to add as many money-making features as possible, while taking away genuinely useful ones.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

who the hell would ever use the Netflix windows app? And for that matter, at this late date, who the hell is still paying for Netflix to actually watch what little is still on there?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

We do. Because it's the only streaming app that has a very large catalogue of local shows and non western shows that is available in our country.

Also we (my family) pay because it's our choice and nothing you say will change that.

That said.

I pirate shows from Amazon, Disney, hbo, Hulu, paramount, etc. Simply because I chose Netflix to pay because they were the first to not snub our country and offered their services and I choose to not pay for other platforms, because it's expensive to do so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do you choose what you pirate and what you dont?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If I watch it on TV, computer, tablet or phone, I pirate it. Else, I pay.

Hell, I'm pirating Amazon even though I have Amazon Prime because of how crap the app is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

this.

and anything that looks interesting that is out of the netflix line up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

It's one of the only non-Android TV, Apple TV, or Roku ways of streaming Netflix with a remote via HTPC. There are EXTREMELY niche uses for it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

We, yesterday for a train ride. We, next week, for the way back. We almost every month for that purpose.